126
Psalm 126 · Book Five
A song of ascents.
The Hebrew title · Berean Standard Bible
Song of Ascents
About this psalm
It starts with a memory so good it felt unreal: when the LORD turned again the captivity of Zion, we were like them that dream. Then our mouth filled with laughter. And then it asks for the same thing again, because it has not lasted. The promise it ends on is the one people carry through grief: They that sow in tears shall reap in joy.
Read it when you are doing something hard with no sign it will work.
One verse at a time, slowly
1When the LORD turned again the captivity of Zion, we were like them that dream.2Then was our mouth filled with laughter, and our tongue with singing:then said they among the heathen, The LORD hath done great things for them.3The LORD hath done great things for us;whereof we are glad.4Turn again our captivity, O LORD, as the streams in the south.5They that sow in tears shall reap in joy.6He that goeth forth and weepeth, bearing precious seed, shall doubtless come again with rejoicing, bringing his sheaves with him.
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